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Why are the fans caged in - I thought those types of barriers were no longer allowed. Also, are plastic patio chairs really allowed as seating for stadiums - surely they are not safe or sturdy enough, especially as they are not fitted/anchored

Wonder why he did not scrreenshot them or post the link as opposed to typing them all out. Anyway from the Wolves forums AlexWolve... Bristol City could win the world cup if Bristol were to become a independent nation Dave (the homeless guy outside Tesco metro) Bristol have the best.... *whispher sorry...sorry Bristol City have the best fans on the planet Stuey amazing how those 600 City fans managed to make more noise than Rovers. Anyone know if they dope the water in North Bristol, just I can't understand how they are so lethargic

Sadly not, it would have been a little funny if the BBC had managed to air thus unknowingly. The author of the cartoon even won libel damages from a lot of sources who printed the stories over the years including the Mirror, Sun and Guardian

always makes me laugh - when I ever hear it I always ask if they actually ever watched it.

oh dear...

Bobby - well if Fammy is £5 million - Bobby must be £6 million +

Bobbys run to set up Paterson - he is on fire atm

Flint !!!!!!!!!!!!!

They had the restrictions overturned so they could go ahead. They just need to put in their plans now, but for some reason they have gone into consultation mode again.

Let's not forget that Rovers did not have the money to purchase their share of the ground so Holmes lent them quarter of a million towards it so they could do the deal. No wonder Rovers rewarded him and the Rugby fans... Well let's not go there.

Notice that some of the ex directors of that company have connections with Bristol Rugby club. One was director of Bristol Rugby club in 1998 when they sold the mem to Rovers. So some close ties, maybe Terramond is/was a holding company for either Rovers or Bristol Rugby that got swept up in the Wael purchase, hence how they ended up with the Colony. I wonder if the money they paid for the colony went to this little clique, or maybe they took on the mortgage relieving some people of some debt as part of their purchase.

No problem with mocking the blue few, but a bit low making fun of someone suffering from ACNE.

Well my Uncle (life long Rovers supporter) has been pretty reluctant to believe concerns mentioned to him about Wael and Dwayne sports. Today we were chatting and he mentioned he is starting to have doubts, I asked what changed his mind he mentioned that Rovers supporters he knows (and their forum) have started to awake to the fact all is not well. They are just not sure what is wrong. So they do get there in the end guys - just a bit slow out of the blocks.

OMG I forgot about that show, I just got hit by a nostalgia wave.

feel a bit of a 2nd class citizen not able to watch the live feed.......... Sounds like a great game so far

A few months back they were looking at other clubs facilities for ideas. They said they liked Fleetwoods set up and it would match he clubs vision going forward. Problem is it costs Fleetwood £8 million to create Poolfoot farm.

Depends on the situation, if you owned a few companies all of which you wanted to keep trading and be a success then inter company loans are a way of moving funds around and rarely charge interest as your in essence charging yourself, there is no benefit (or costs to charging the interest). If however it was a investment opportunity, and one of the companies you owned was created purely as a speculative project, then a inter company loan to that entity would surely be charged at interest. If you want to make money on the project then interest and notification of the details in the company minutes or accounts/loan deal would be made. The money can always be put back in if you want, but if your looking for return on investment then you would use every tool available to you, and not lose potential income because auditors / accountants view it as a interest free loan. If I was a investment banker putting up millions to a side project, I know I would cover myself just in case.

I doubt Dwayne sports would be up for sale. They would sell just BRFC, who currently are a team in L1, with staff, wages, players on contracts, loans owed to Dwayne, a few football kits, a trade marked pirate logo, some shop merchandise and maybe some training balls (i.e. all the liabilities). Dwayne are I imagine receiving interest payments, and own all the assets, Dwayne sports has zero exposure and will in all likelihood make a profit on things regardless. They would sell the Mem to get their money back for their loans, and keep the land at the colony (land on the outskirts of growing Cities is never a bad thing (especially when it costs so little)). Is this their preferred scenario, I imagine not, but if everything fails then they have protected themselves and will walk away no worse of than they started. Wael had a chance of making his family a nice bit of money and have a football club for himself to keep him occupied. Now we get to see if they are truly committed to running the club as a loss making hobby or cut and run when they realise there is no easy profits in most football clubs. As for the people touting the things they have done. Rovers and Higgs got more and more desperate for cash flow in the final years, they let staff go, their ground run down as they could not afford maintenance they were running backroom as a non league team. Wael has brought them back up to L1 expectations, and started some basic maintenance at the ground (needed seeing this is there home for the forseeable future). But none of this is really costing much (and likely all done with borrowed money from DS anyway). Even people touting DC's 5 year contract as some sort of proof of commitment is non-sense, either side can terminate the contract. There is no costs to giving someone another five years, it's just word play. Anyway, will be interesting to see what happens now, at least it will give us a few minutes entertainment before talking about real football related matters.

I cannot believe some still think they are billionaires, they are thicker than flat earthers.

Was a brilliant season capped by the chance of getting to the Premiership with a playoff final in front of 30k people - amazed that they think this is something to use as a dig at the club, it's still one of our best seasons with AG absolutely rocking. It's sad, they make digs out of us for this thread, but near the beginning are several pages where we did research into Wael when he took over. Rovers fans and the media were calling him a billionaire, spending his money on stadium and players, saying they were one of the richest clubs in the country. On our site we had within a couple of days put their wealth at around £70 million (and that is total assets not cash / funds available) and said little would change and at worse it could be a land grab for the mem. Whilst we did this Gas forums were giving each other a collective blow job and saying how jealous we were - maybe if they were half as inquisitive as us and not afraid of speaking out against the Gas dreamland fallacy they all live in, things would not be such a shock to them. Sadly their forum is just a la la land echo chamber, dissention against the narrative = bans. Maybe their mods and posters could learn from all this.... I would rather he built a multi use indoor athletics arena at UWE this area has nothing like it for miles. Local Gymnast have to goto Plymouth to train. We could not host a athletics meet, or indoor tennis open / competition the area just sucks for facilities. When Higgs was bought out and all the debts were paid of it was done so as a loan that was put on the books of a offshore company called Dwayne sports that owns Rovers and the Mem. To ensure that they would get all this money back no matter what happens (administration, etc) they put a charge against the Memorial stadium, So in effect the club bought itself and Wael used none of their own money, just guaranteed loans against the mem. To be honest you were operating like a low end conference club and really needed someone to pull you up to at least L2 standards. I suspect that a lot of that was down to Higgs running out of money and lines of funding drying up. Infrastructure does not get repaired, staff get let go until you have the bare basics. Now you are back at where you should be, the question is, is the money (or will) there to push beyond. I guess this is where we will start to see the true intentions of Wael now. The reason I like this site is that we never let ourselves get so blinded or forced into a cult like collective like your forums all but force your posters to over time.

Well it seems their training ground plans have been drawn up finalised and will be submitted soon - heard they are pretty decent with large facilities and more than a dozen pitches of varying sizes and playing surfaces. So keep your eyes / ears open.

They will need them regardless of costs as they have released / not renewing contracts of so many players.